He Came Up With The Idea While Working For Arpanet The slovakia email list 434238 contact leads Governmentfunded Research Project That Eventually Became The Internet At The Time You Could Only Leave Messages For People Using The Same Computer Tomlinson Created A Program That Gave Users The Ability To Send Messages Between Connected Computers On The Arpanet Systemarpanet Computers That Sent First Emailsthe First Email Was Sent Between These Two Arpanet Computersray Tomlinson By An Symbolray Tomlinsonamong Tomlinsons Most Notable Contributions To Email As We Know It Today Is The Use Of The Symbol

Tomlinson Passed Away In 2016 But He Lived To See His Idea Adopted By People All Over The Worldin 2012 Tomlinson Told His Story Of The Invention Of Email To The Verge And Said People Ended Up Using It Just As He Envisionedarpanet Was Very Young And Looking For Problems It Could Solve I Had An Experimental Filetransfer Protocol But The Real One Was Still In The Works I Didnt Want To Wait For That So I Wrote A Simple Little One For My Own Use And Glued That Onto The Sndmsg Program So I Could Send The Mailbox File To Another Computer Where The Receivers Mailbox Was